School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 200
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- The mermaid is half a woman and half a fish. She has long hair and combs it on the rocks with a comb which she makes from the shell of a fish. She was seen combing her hair, and afterwards it was said that a ship was lost. Everyone tries to see her but a great many fail to do so. The mermaid it is said is a woman who was saved from drowning by the fairies, and she got the power of living in the water from them.
- Informant
- Thady Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lugatober, Co. Sligo
